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Kohan, who became bureau chief in 1988, started preparing for the assignment when he began studying Russian at the University of Virginia 20 years ago. He spent four months in 1974 polishing his language skills at the University of Leningrad. Joining TIME in New York City the following year, he helped shape the magazine's coverage of Soviet affairs. Staffers in the World section still vividly remember John's farewell party, held at a Russian restaurant; to this day, at least one of John's colleagues cannot look at a bottle of vodka without wincing...
Boris Gidaspov, Leningrad party chief...
...seen out his limousine window and in reports brought to him by long-faced ministers than by satellite photographs of American missiles aimed at Moscow. He has been discouraged and radicalized by what he has heard from his own constituents during his walkabouts in Krasnodar, Sverdlovsk and Leningrad -- not by the exhortations, remonstrations or sanctions of foreigners...
Party conservatives who long masqueraded as yea-sayers to Gorbachev have begun to regroup. Leningrad party boss Boris Gidaspov was roundly criticized from the floor of the Congress last week for making "threats against our leader" and "sounding nostalgic notes" for the past. Surprised by the attack, Gidaspov claimed that everything going on in Leningrad was aimed at "speeding up perestroika." Gorbachev watched the whole spectacle impassively from the tribunal...
Meanwhile, the national Communist Party is under attack from within. Last month the leaders of Leningrad's Communist Party arranged an unprecedented demonstration to criticize Moscow for not defending the party against glasnost-inspired attacks. If this outburst reflects apparatchik sentiment, legalizing competitive groups would arouse not only outrage but perhaps a concerted effort to oust Gorbachev. The Leningrad protest provoked a countermarch by some 40,000 incensed citizens who proclaimed their support for Gorbachev's efforts to rejuvenate the party through open criticism...